Diary Studies: Methods for understanding poor people's coping with crisis after conflict
This paper presents methods that are useful in understanding how people cope with violent lives, how to gain an understanding of communities, how to analyse levels and nature of torture, as well as how to work ethically in dangerous contexts.
One method for gathering detailed knowledge through conducting
close observations is introduced, which we call 'diary studies'.
The term 'diary studies' refers to a series of observations
(through self reporting diaries, home visits and close systematized
contact) of and with individuals or families for a period of 6 to 8
weeks.
Diary Studies (436 kB)
by Stine Finne Jakobsen, Steffen Jensen and Henrik Rønsbo